North Clayton Middle School

North Clayton Middle School is one of the middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campuss in College Park, Georgia, one of the schools within Clayton County, with 817 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

North Clayton Middle School is one of 68 schools operated by Clayton County, a district that hosts 51,326 students overall.

On demographics, North Clayton Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (83%). Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Clayton County as a whole is about 69% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, North Clayton Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.1%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Clayton County shows the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Clayton County runs 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,156 students), of which North Clayton Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Northcutt Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North Clayton Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 18.9%.

North Clayton Middle School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. North Clayton Middle School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 810 (now 817). Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 87% to 83%.

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